Connections Quotes

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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

- Tara Brach

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

- Sydney J. Harris

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-wool possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.

- Frances Moore Lappé

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

- Armand Dimele

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

- Stephen Covey

We seek not rest but transformation.
We are dancing through each other as doorways.

- Marge Piercy

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication -- particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

- Thor Heyerdahl

Relationship is the substance of our connections: things like family or blood relatives, as well as covenant relationship like marriage or adoption. Even beyond that, relationship can also be defined by association (church family, workplace, neighborhoods, students, etc.), or just the frequency in which we connect with people (if I see someone often, then I might say I have a relationship with them).

- Dan Lentz

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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Often attributed to Lila Watson, who has said she was "not comfortable being credited for something that had been born of a collective process" - the attribution here is the one she accepts.

- Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection -- or compassionate action.

- Daniel Goleman

Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.

- Sharon Salzberg

A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.

- Michael Lerner

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

- Henry Reed

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

- Andre Weil

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For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

- Deborah Tannen

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

- E. M. Forster

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

- Harriet Goldhor Lerner

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

- Blaise Pascal

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

- Frederick Buechner

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

- John Muir

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

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And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson